Adobe Flaw Allows Full Movie Downloads For Free

webax writes with this excerpt from Reuters: "[An Adobe security hole] exposes online video content to the rampant piracy that plagued the music industry during the Napster era and is undermining efforts by retailers, movie studios and television networks to cash in on a huge Web audience. 'It's a fundamental flaw in the Adobe design. This was designed stupidly,' said Bruce Schneier ... The flaw rests in Adobe's Flash video servers that are connected to the company's players installed in nearly all of the world's Web-connected computers. The software doesn't encrypt online content, but only orders sent to a video player such as start and stop play. To boost download speeds, Adobe dropped a stringent security feature that protects the connection between the Adobe software and its players." webax also notes that the article suggests DRM as a potential solution to the problem.

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Re:Doublethink

[QuantumG]

Huh? Bruce Schneier has shown numerous times that he's a complete dick who is on par with Dvorak in his trolling and whoring self promotion. This is the guy who said for years that strong encryption was the bee's knees of security and we need not concern ourselves with all those lowly details of implementation, etc. He had to make a public apology for his blasé attitude to matters of security outside his personal little kingdom of encryption when he was shown up for commenting so stupidly outside his field.. then weeks later he was once again claiming the rock star security guru title. I think a lot of people buy it simply because he has a nickel more common sense when it comes to security matters than the average bear but he's not infallible.